Allow me to take a break from analysis and nitpicking to just use this space as a megaphone:

A bunch of people have jumped on Kirin Tor and said hi to me in-game. I’ve grouped with a few people and had tremendous fun. Chatty DM and I stomped on the vile creatures that plague Bloodmyst Isle. My brother (who you’ll see in the comments here as Skeeve the Impossible) has jumped into the game and seems to be happy with his Gnomeish Mage. My friend Bogan and I have done a run through Deadmines and found various humorous ways in which to have the monsters of Azeroth send us to our deaths.

I have to thank the people who have dragged my diverse collection of incompetent heroes through their assigned quests, as well as those who humored me and all of my detailed questions instead of just replying, “Have you HEARD of Google, Shamus?”

Pavelock happened by accident. I was just trying out a Dwarf to see their quests and starting area. Twenty-five levels later I realized I had a new main character. I do regret the name, though. It’s intended to be pronounced like Pave Lock but I’ve already had someone take it for Pavel-ock. Ugh. Someone else saw the “lock” at the end and assumed “Warlock”. I figured every possible compound word featuring stone is probably taken by one of the other million or so dwarves in the game. So “pave” seemed like a good substitute. (And Pavelock is actually a videogame reference.)

I do have trouble keeping track of who is who, in-game. With the proliferation of alts and names I get hopelessly lost. I see people talking about joining the game in my comments and on other websites, and I see new names in the game as people greet me, but I can’t sort out who is who. So, this is an invitation to people to post here and relate their name here in the comments with their name(s) in the game.

I’m not on Kirin Tor, alas, but the name pronunciation thing amuses me on a personal level. My first toon’s name was Atheri, and in order to help people keep track of who was who, I wanted to keep “theri” as part of my alt’s names. So my second character (long since abandoned) became Therival. Pronounced Ther-i-val. Not “The rival”. *sigh*

Hee hee. I don’t have any characters on Kirin Tor, unfortunately. My characters are all on Windrunner or Nordrassil, but they are: (Windrunner) Liriela, (Windrunner) Tiriela (do you see a pattern here? hee hee), and (on Nordrassil), Laralee.

I tried out the 10-day trial back in January, but then got back into classes and kicked the habit. Now that I’m finishing up a summer semester course, I’m going to try it out for real. I had a male night elf hunter (Phonar) as well as a male dwarf paladin Bloodhoof. I’m probably going to start over and sign up on Kirin Tor.
Thanks for dragging me back into WoW, but your descriptions just made it all the more real for me about how much fun it was back then.

Yay, a dwarf main! For some reason, I have an unexplainable soft spot for the male dwarves in this game, too. They’re humourous, but not overly ridiculous like the gnomes. Pretty much any class is made better by being a dwarf.

I rolled up a human priest(ess) on Kirin Tor, but have yet to actually say hi. But if you see Antonya cringing from the idiocy in Goldshire, do say hello. (Or the gnome, Bargidge, she’s hired to do her banking in Ironforge).

Thanks to Shamus, I’m playing again.
Much to my GF’s chagrin of course.
While I haven’t made a character on Kirin Tor (and I don’t plan to-I can’t abide Alliance chars save for my Dwarven hunter), I hope you enjoy the game!
I play Icecrown myself, You’ll usually see me as Bullzilla running around finishing old quests.

I just started tailoring so if you want some new socks or some crap like that. I am the man to see, but if you want anything better than that. You had better shuffle off to the auction house. cuz I cant make it :)

I still haven’t started my trial, which is good since two weeks ago I stated that I could never have a healthy relationship with WOW. When I do start my unhealthy relationship, though, I’m worried that Kirin Tor will be horribly overpopulated by everyone from here that’s joined or moved over there!

Shamus, you mentioned that you regretted your choice of names for your dwarf character. You can fix that with a visit to Blizzard’s website and $10 on a credit card. They allow both name changes and transfers to different servers (which cost $25). These are excellent options for players who have characters that they like with names that they don’t, or who have characters on one server and friends on another.

To change your character’s name, go to the main WoW website and click the Manage Account link on the left side of the page. You’ll be prompted to enter your account info and then taken to an Account Management page where you’ll find a bunch of options, one of which is a Paid Name Change.

As far as my characters, I am unfortunately not on Kirin Tor, so we won’t be crossing paths in WoW. After two years on a PVP server, my friends and I had had enough ganking and griefing to last a lifetime, so we all transferred over to the Scarlet Crusade RP-PVE server. I am Quirk and Joth (70 gnome mage and 70 human paladin) plus more alts than I care to admit. If any Twenty-Sided readers are there as well, be sure to say hello!

I’m sorry, I have been a lurker just enjoying and admiring
not contributing
but
all this WoW talk
I hadn’t played in ages
you’ve inspired me to try alliance, for a change,
on your server, all shiny and new
(new to me)

What fun! I haven’t had that feeling of exploration in a good long time
Thank you!

Hiya Shamus! Mike here.. RL friend of our beloved Chatty ;) I’m somewhat of a veteran at WoW (Got some lvls 70th at my original server Zul’Jin) and have joined your lot into Kirin Tor. My toon is Ganimède, the lovely Dreanai pally, and we had a blast into BFD the other night… see ya soon :)

Ugh. I created my main on Silver Hand in an idealistic time when I expected to be roleplaying and I wasn’t aware of the extreme level of prejudice found in WoW. So naive was I that not only did I roll an Alliance human, I also commited the truly unforgivable crime of being a paladin. Also, people in WoW really seem to hate roleplayers. I don’t play much WoW anymore. I mostly play EQ2 now, which has a much better RP community. I’ve also started dabbling in Ultima, but the escort quests are weighing on my sanity.